[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 172 (Thursday, November 2, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H11689]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




     DEMANDING FURTHER INFORMATION ON THE WELFARE, WELL-BEING, AND 
                 WHEREABOUTS OF JOURNALIST DAVID ROHDE

  (Mr. LONGLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LONGLEY. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to report that this morning, 
about 3 hours ago, the United Nations confirmed that the American 
journalist, David Rohde, who has been reported missing in Bosnian Serb 
territory, is alive and in Serbian hands. According to Clayton Jones, 
international editor of the Christian Science Monitor, a high-level 
Bosnian Serb official informed the United Nations Mr. Rohde is being 
held in a Bosnian Serb stronghold of Polje.
  Mr. Rohde, the Monitor's East European correspondent, has not been 
heard from since last Saturday. I think it is an important message to 
send to the Bosnian Serb Government that we demand an immediate 
accounting of Mr. Rohde's whereabouts, his health and safety, and that 
we want to make it absolutely clear they will be held responsible for 
his safety.
  In the context of the peace talks that are currently beginning in 
Dayton, it seems to me the entire integrity of the process rests on 
whether in fact these governments actually control the territory that 
they presume to control, and I call for David Rohde's immediate release 
and return to this country.

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